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RSS BotBM to Lobste.rsEnglish · 13 days ago

Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware

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Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware

www.jeffgeerling.com

RSS BotBM to Lobste.rsEnglish · 13 days ago
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Raspberry Pi added a feature in their firmware that restricts users from swapping RAM chips, sometimes even RAM chips of the same capacity from other Raspberry Pi boards. Apparently there were people buying cheap 1 or 2 gig Pi 5s, soldering in some cheap and sometimes unreliable 8 gig RAM chips, and selling them as new 8 gig Pi 5s. Now I totally understand where Raspberry Pi's coming from. They don't wanna support Pis being sold like this, because flaky RAM and dodgy resellers are a huge problem. Especially with how profitable can be in the current AI bubble.

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